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Chapter 745: Suspicion abounds, the murderer dies suddenly

Late at night, in prison.

"You guys are so brave!"

In the cell, Su Yao's voice was icy cold:
"Although this person caused trouble in the street and slandered the court, you killed the prisoner without questioning him. Do you still have the law in your eyes when you abuse lynching like this?"

To be honest, Su Yao didn't take this bearded man seriously at first.

It was just because this guy hurt Hong'er and was making a lot of noise and spreading rumors, Su Yao wanted to come over and teach him a lesson, and then instruct the officials to punish him impartially and severely.

As a result, who would have thought that when he visited the prison late at night, the jailer was panic-stricken and made excuses. Then, when he walked in, he found that the target of the mission was already dead, lying cold in the cell.

There were a few jailers gathered around that man in twos and threes, and it was obvious that they were involved.

However, upon hearing Su Yao's accusation, the jailer and the prison guards were immediately frightened out of their wits and kowtowed repeatedly to deny it.

"It's unfair, Champion Marquis, it's unfair!"

The jailer knelt on the ground, trembling all over, and kept shouting that he was wronged:

"How dare you guys abuse lynching? This person died suddenly and it has nothing to do with us!"

"He was a healthy person, full of energy and energy before he came in, ready to cause trouble, but how come he suddenly died after coming in? Is this a prison cell or the palace of hell?"

"You're trying to fool me like this, don't you think I can't cure you?"

The jailer and the guards were so frightened that they trembled all over and said in unison:
"Champion Hou Mingjian!"

The jailers had sad faces and trembling voices said:

“We really don’t know what’s going on.”

"After the prisoner was brought in, he was obviously drunk and kept making a lot of noise. He also threatened that there was someone behind him."

"How dare we neglect him? We provide him with good food and drink, and we interrogate him to find out his background."

"But after we questioned him for a long time, he just kept talking nonsense and couldn't give any reliable names. So we just assumed he was talking nonsense and took him to the jail to await trial and left him alone."

"In the end, who would have thought that in the middle of the night, the prisoner next to him suddenly screamed. We rushed over to see that he had fallen to the ground, twitching all over. We couldn't save him. You came not long after. We were really wronged!"

Su Yao frowned when he heard this, and glanced at the trembling jailers and prison guards with a sharp gaze, thinking secretly in his heart.

Of course he knew that these prison guards would not kill a prisoner for no reason, especially during this sensitive period.

But the situation in front of him was indeed strange. Why did the bearded man suddenly die?

If he hadn't offended Hong'er and he hadn't come here, would this matter have just passed without a sound?
Is there any conspiracy hidden in this prison?
"Well, you better pray that you are telling the truth."

Su Yao snorted coldly:
"If I find out that you have been deceiving me, your fate will be no better than this man's!"

The jail boss and the prison guards were so frightened that they kowtowed repeatedly and promised that they would never dare to tell a lie.

First, Su Yao was silent for a moment, then turned and walked out of the cell, just in time to run into Hong'er who hurriedly followed him:

"Hong'er, you came just in time. You don't have to go in. Just tell me what this person said to you on the street and how did you come into conflict?"

Hong'er looked curious, but still told Su Yao everything that had happened before, including the bearded man's slanderous words against Su Yao and Princess Wannian.

After Su Yao heard this, a cold light flashed in his eyes.

He naturally knew that such remarks were by no means isolated cases in Luoyang City. As the news of his support for Princess Wannian to ascend the throne spread, there would inevitably be many people who would be dissatisfied and secretly criticize him.

That was why he asked Cai Yan to send out students from the girls' school in advance to mobilize these people to guide public opinion.

Hong'er didn't need to do such a thing.

But she was unwilling to sit idle, so she volunteered to join the "propaganda team", which led to the conflict today.

"It seems that someone wants to take advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble."

Su Yao muttered to himself, and then said to Hong'er:

"You go back and have a rest first, I will take care of things here." Hong'er didn't know that the prisoner was dead, but seeing Su Yao's serious expression, she knew that something big might have happened.

She looked at Su Yao worriedly, nodded, then turned around and left obediently.

Along with Hong'er were several guards specially assigned by Su Yao to prevent any accidents from happening to people around them.

After Hong'er left, Su Yao returned to the cell again and asked the prison boss about the identity of the deceased.

As a result, he didn't get much useful information at this point.

According to the information obtained by the jailer during the initial investigation, this man was just the eldest son of a small aristocratic family in the capital and did not have much power. Therefore, even if he was involved in the previous rebellion of the aristocratic families, he was only confiscated of his property, stripped of his title, and demoted to a commoner.

Such people certainly have deep hatred towards me, but they are unlikely to pose much of a threat.

If he had not been implicated in the conspiracy, who would have killed him in this prison?

Seeing that the jailers could not provide any information, Su Yao then requested to interrogate the first witness to the death, the prisoner sitting next to him.

The jailers did not dare to delay and brought him here immediately.

He was a middle-aged man in ragged clothes, his face full of fear.

"What's your name? What's your relationship with the deceased?" Su Yao asked straight to the point.

The middle-aged man replied tremblingly:

"My name is Li Ergou. I have nothing to do with the deceased. We just happened to be imprisoned in the same cell."

"When he died suddenly, did you see anything unusual?" Su Yao asked.

Li Ergou thought about it and said:

"I was sleeping when I heard a strange noise coming from that person, as if he was in pain."

"Then I opened my eyes groggily, and saw him lying on the ground twitching. I was terrified and shouted for help."

"Have you ever seen any suspicious figures before, or has anyone approached him?" Su Yao continued to ask.

Li Ergou shook his head and said:

"No, I didn't see any suspicious figures, and no one else came to visit the prison except the jailer."

Su Yao frowned even more tightly when he heard this. It seemed that he could not get any useful clues from this person.

He waved his hand, signaling the jailer to take Li Ergou away, and then began to pace in the cell, thinking.

He originally thought that maybe the jailers took dirty money and dared not say anything, so they allowed someone else to visit the prison and poisoned the deceased to death.

As a result, eyewitness testimony showed that he had no contact with outsiders and died suddenly. It couldn't be that he had a heart attack and scared himself to death, right?

No way, that would be too anticlimactic.

Didn't I waste the whole night?

No, could there be some clue that we've missed?

Suddenly, Su Yao had an idea. Thinking about the strange behavior of the jailers before, he suddenly realized that he had missed an important step.

"Autopsy!"

Su Yao stopped and turned to the jailer beside him and asked:

"Where is the deceased?"

"Why did you carry him away so quickly?"

"Go call the coroner in the city. I want to do an autopsy myself!"

(End of this chapter)